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Apr.08.2011 What Is RSS And Why You Want It to Help You Research Are there blogs and Web sites you go to often to look for updates? Wouldn't it be great to have these updates come to you? You can with a technology called RSS. What is this? It appears as a funny little orange icon on a Web site you are visiting. It represents an RSS feed. Depending on...	Aug.08.2010 Formatting Tip for Blogs and Other HTML Documents Html-formatted blog sites such as Red Room often "automatically" double space text, which works well for essays or fiction. However, if you want to format a quote or a poem, you often want a single space, what we used to call a carriage return. There's a "chord," where you...
Jul.19.2010 Electronic Publishing Is For Real But Not Yet For Poetry Amazon.com announced yesterday that they are now selling significantly more electronic books than they are hard-cover books. The following article states they sold one hundred eighty E-books for every hundred hardcover books they sold and shipped last month. http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/...	Jun.16.2010 Apologies! In case you're not aware of it, most of my posts here are copied and pasted from my other blog, Terry's Place. I was playing with their new design template over the weekend, and apparently the new formatting codes don't translate well when I copy a post. I apologize for the eyestrain inducing post...
May.01.2009 Building an Author Platform Building an Author Platform You must present a strong author platform to get the attention from an agent, editor, or publisher. In the query letter, they are wanting to read who you are, where you're established in the writing world, and what you're planning to do to market and promote yourself...	Apr.16.2009 Veni, vidi, wiki I have wikied. In broad daylight, once. But mostly under cover of night. My new skill for the week insert fanfare of trumpets here is that I have become one of the thousands–nay, MILLIONS– of authors of Wikipedia. A few posts ago, I referenced Maquis Universal, a science fiction RPG of which I’...
May.29.2008 So I Had This Blog . . . Okay, these things happen. You know, you write something you like and for some strange reason the planets align and conspire, and poof! it's gone. So I had this blog this morning right here. It was gorgeous! It was fabulous, and I submitted it without copying it and poof! it was gone. Trust me,...